03-19-2019, 09:58 PM
(03-19-2019, 10:08 AM)fredtoast Wrote: I was excited when we hired a new coach. Pretty much down hill since then.
Not impressed at all by the DC and assistant coaches.
Bot impressed at all with free agent signings. Webb and Hart are not even mid-level. They are bottom of the barrel. Miller is just meh. Brown is not bad. I did not want Eifert back because he just keeps us from looking for another top TE. I was expecting a hell of a lot more.
But it is not over yet. Last year we started 5-3 with wins over two division champions. Our roster was not as bad as some here claimed. I still think we can have a decent year if we stay healthy.
This is where I'm at. The only difference is I was indifferent on Eifert coming back.
Loved the Taylor hire. The rest of the staff is as weak as I've ever seen on paper, and I'm not exaggerating. We're having a status quo Bengals free agency. Bargain bin shopping. I liked cutting Burfict, but we didn't do so until free agency was picked thin. So it seems like we're probably going to roll that over into Mike's money vault.
I'm looking forward to the draft, but so are the fans of 31 other teams. Without a home-run draft and some hidden gems on this staff, I'm not as optimistic about 2019 as I'd like to be. This team didn't have a ton of holes, so it's depressing to see another lazy/cheap approach to free agency.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
